I promised I wouldn’t attack Mena in the future, so I’m not, saying someone is on drugs is Australian for saying something really stupid, bizarre, etc….

This from Business Week:
” think blog tools can get easier to use. Putting together a blog should be as easy as sending an e-mail. I foresee the next versions of blog tools as focusing less on features that appeal to early adopters. They’ll be easier for people to incorporate more media and maybe mobile capabilities. This will be important, because many more mainstream users will come to blogging. I believe the interest in blogging is just starting.”

Outside of Image Management, blogging is as easy as sending an email. Indeed I can post to a WordPress blog using email! I’m not sure if there is an equivalent in SixApart products, but I’d be surprised if there wasn’t. As for extras, has she not tried MSN Spaces or MySpace out? there isn’t a huge number of features here. Indeed I would argue that that we need more features in blogware not less. As the blogosphere matures users are and will be expecting to do more, not less, unless of course she counts the 200 million odd bloggers as “early adopters” 🙂

This is hillarious! A screen shot from Windows Vista via Zoli’s Blog:

I should have posted this on The Blog Herald when I still had her. Things that annoy me: Feeds that fully reload in Bloglines so you get like the last 20 posts over the week or similar instead of just the ones you’ve already read. Of course, if you’re doing server or upgrade work this is going to happen with a blog, however some blogs do it all the time, and I’d think its a problem with the blogware they are using. Am I pointing my fingure at someone in particular? YES: Weblogs Inc and Blogsmith. My couple of Weblogs Inc blog feeds I subscribe to do this ALL the time. Its annoying….grizzle, grizzle, grizzle 🙂

MC Hammer has a blog. My,my,my,my 🙂

I’m still under contract not to say (I think) but given it’s public here it is.

God, I’m running the sucks theme here now 🙂

So here’s my sucks for the day: Feedburner.

I number of blogs and bloggers I read use this service (I won’t name names though, but you know who you are) and they’ve nearly all been uncontactable/ not updating in Bloglines for a week. I’ve corresponded with a few people who’ve told me Feedburner is blaming Bloglines…which is odd really because its only Feedburner feeds that are having the problem. If they’re using compliant (ie Dave Winer compliant) RSS I’d think they wouldn’t have a problem….but maybe its all in my head and they really don’t suck at all.

I’ve had a play with Feedburner in the past and I still don’t get why it’s all that amazing. Sure, you get to see that Bloglines, Yahoo and others are pulling your feed, so what? I knew that already from the Awstats feeds I was getting when I still owned The Blog Herald!

Threadwatch gets it totally right: it’s totally over when Google brings ecommerce to Google Base. Combine this with the much waited for Google Payments system, and if I owned eBay shares I’d be doing certain things in my pants very soon 🙂

What a fun 48 hours. I recieved final payment for The Blog Herald and the transfer went across ok, and then Dreamhost, who hosts my personal sites (including Weblog Empire) boots me onto an “Evaluation server” and all the sites go down for 24 hours…..I suppose the karma is balanced now.

Interesting question at Slashdot. My 3 (and a half) year old’s favorite game (at the moment) is an old arcade version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles played via MAME. I bought a el cheapo analog joystick (or is that a pad…) that worked straight out of the front USB port and it took him about 5 minutes to work it out, now he’s nearly better than me 🙂 is this to young???

Dafamer reports on young Hollywood stars getting pissed.

Of course the proper question would be: why in the world does the US have such a stupid minimun drink age of 21? I mean they are quite happy to blow up kiddies in Iraq and send soldiers younger than this to war…which is all ok as long as they don’t drink….I just don’t get it and I never will!